Tag: #SOJ

  • Back to the norm

    Today was the first day since late March where met up front, a group of 9 gents graced Rockwood Park on a nice fall Saturday morning with the shadow of the recent beaver moon still in the sky. Let’s review….

    Started off a little run around the parking lot, them into the basketball court for the uncustomary WARMARAMMA(a moving warm up not being in the circle I want to change things up). Started with runner’s lunge to a twist, then at each point 5 SSH, walking lunges with arms riding to cactus position, side shuffles, mummy kicks(I am renaming to the chaps), plank walks then a light suicide run to finish. Mosey over to the main lot which was fairly empty. 4 corners next: 20 Carolina Dry Docks, 40 SSHs, 60 American Hammers, 80 mountain climbers. Then a little stroll to the concession area for a TC(wall sits, tricep dips, run down the steps back up near the end broad jump up the steps). I wanted to do plank wall ups but the ground was a little slick. A new one I came up with: hoe downs with a twist to each side at the top. A nice little change up from the usual.

    Then down to where I had some “toys” I brought out today: classic Dora(100 Merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs) you’re time carried a bucket, sandbag weighting 50-60 pounds, or my Thor kettlebell hammers. After that VA little fun tire tossing, same bag pull thrus, seal crawl walks, A final stretch corn to the pull up area for a quick round pull ups, scrunchies, left lift up and over the post. A final run to the flag, 10 HRMs to close things out. Numbers, names announcements and prayer led by YHC to close Saturday morning.

    Next week, Richmond Marathon and the Bridge(I am going to the bridge, been wanting to go for a while). So you have a chance to lead a workout, do so step up time. Grab a Q i know guys will not grab one is simple the key is make it your own. You control things if you want to do a 3 mile run with a Dora added why not. Second thing: Spartan Virginia 2026 last week of getting to race for free(I mean free). You have the Super Saturday morning, there’s a Sprint in the afternoon then Sunday the Sprint is the entire day. I am doing both in the morning each day. Will I be doing the trifecta next year most likely! Where I do the beast is the next question. If any questions reach out you have a little over 11 months to get ready I have reached out to a place that is a FARM with obstacles to train. Will fill in more details as I hear back. See you at the next gloom

  • the NASCAR route

    this weeks edition of the Miles Of Truth run was mostly successful. Only two falls by a PAX who shall not be named here…. YHC went for simple on the route, and let’s just say Derek Zoolander would not have been able to do it.
    4s: left on 60, left on Charter Colony, left on Woolridge , left to take the loop at Midlo mines park, left back onto Woolridge, left onto 60, finish at invisible shovel flag.
    5s: before ISF, left at top of mt Midlo, left through new townhomes neighborhood, left on Woolridge, left onto 60, back ISF

    Numbers, names, announcements, YHC took us out

    EF Hutton going to bridge a week from Saturday, gingerbread contest at hardywood downtown on Sunday, if you or someone you know needs a ham or seasonal work see YHC, prayers for Drapers neighbor.
    NMM

    Great to be back out with the crew at MOT!! This a great running AO with lots of options for routes. Great to catch up fellow PAX. No ironPAX today 😂


  • Bayou Beatdown

    Twas the night before Timberwolf and the Q sheet was open. Perfect time to introduce a few new COPs. Last week I was in Palm Springs for work with Squints, a EH from a few years ago. Being from Louisiana he took the Q last week to show an SOJ HIM just how they beatdown it in the Bayou. Was nothing short of a smoke show. So why not bring that to the 8 SOJ beasts this morning.

    Started out with a short run with a mix in of high knees, butt kickers, and a Bernie to the hill. A bit of a warmarama with Jazzercise, a few mom and wife stretches and merkins. Lets Go!

    COP 1: 11’s. Walk out merkins, run up the hill for jump squats at the top and bear crawl back down. From there, the PAX performed parking lot tracers to the next area.

    COP 2: Route 66. In light pole alley, the we preformed Mayhem Merkins (LA PAX trying to get this into Exicon). Shoulder taps, hip taps, merkin. Each light pole we added 1 rep to 11, making it 66 total

    COP 3: Jack Ass Webb. A series of donkey kicks into squatting raise the roofs. 2-4, 4-8, up to 10-20.

    COP 3 2/3: With a bit of time left, we performed a Dora. 50 burpees, 100 WW2, 300 LBCs ( which we did not get too) Finished with the 100 WW2. Time called.

    Numbers, Names, PR, Announcements, COT. Prayers for Hermeys M a fast recovery.

    Always an honor to lead you gents!

  • Full moon + Dora =

    Three brave souls dared to conquer their weak bodies at 530am in the light of the bright full moon. According to the stones on the ground where the portajohns used to lie, here’s what went down:

    COP

    helicopter

    arm circles

    imperial walkers

    Ukrainian soldiers

    dead man hang

    copperhead squats

    Merkins and Back’ens:

    merkin

    superman

    close arm merkin

    phelps out of water

    hand release merkin

    Starfish stretch

    Mosey to tower, where we encountered the Dora curse. Dora turned us in to bears, and we have to complete 350 ab exercises (she later increased it to 400 😲)

    dora curse

    400 ab exercises while partner bear crawls to top, touch tower, run down

    After breaking Dora’s curse, we moseyed to Logland for some lumberjack training.

    log carry x12 x2 rounds

    log lifts x12 x 2 rounds

    Plank as you wait for your turn

    Moseyed back to the field but was stopped briefly when we turned into bears again, having to bear crawl around the roundabout, before heading back to the field with some lunges and ending with 2 minutes of overhead clapping to celebrate our victory from the bear curse.

    COT: numerama, namerama

    Florence came out of his cop mobile to say hi to us. We’re glad to hear that he is doing good work to restore peace in our city. He says that he misses F3 but hopes to make it out one day and also encourage others to join too.

    YHC took us out. Glad to have Senka out again from NC!

  • Full Beaver Mooners

    9 studly SOJ NOS brothers who all appreciate a big beautiful beaver (moon) gathered to ruck and chat as we do every week. No Q on the sheet, and nobody jumping forward to lead at 0500, so YHC grabbed the reins and launched into Larus. Enjoyed conversing all things hunting and venison processing with Dealer and the PAX exited the woods to take on some streets, bernie for the hills, squats for the SIX. Probably covered about 2.5 miles and ended a few minutes early for some quality coffeerama time. Thx for letting me lead gents. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    COT:

    • Counterama # 9
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – Gratefulness theme

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 11/10 – NTB on Q for HUGE BELLS #2
    • 11/12 – brother BRU will lead the Ruckhenge crew
    • 11/23 Alamo Chili Cookoff
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance

  • We’re Gonna Take You Higher

    On a chilly, but clear morning, 2 Bermuda Boys came out to Goyne Park to take things to another level.

    Warmarama

    530 hit and Doolittle and YHC started a long mosey. After a mile, they found themselves at the basketball court, and finished the warmarama with some SSH, Imperial Squat Walkers, and Ukrainian Soldiers.

    COP 1 Groundwork

    Alternating 10 sets of 10 Merkins and 10 sets of Ab/Core Exercises including Kimchee Twists, Box Cutters, Hello Dollies, Oblique LBCs, Flutter kicks, American Hammers, Star Crunches, and some others YHC can’t remember.

    COP 2 Suicide Penguins

    Plain old Suicides, stopping at the normal suicide stops for a set of 25 DC Penguins at each. Finish with 1 set of Merkins to Failure.

    Mosey back to the parking lot

    1 more set of Merkins to Failure

    COP 3 Cindy Songorama

    “I want to take you Higher” Sly and the Family Stone

    Goblet/Sumo Squats for the majority of the song

    Overhead Press on every “Higher”

    Higher is repeated almost FIFTY times, and the song is over 5 minutes long!

    COP 4 Single leg Balancing and Jumping

    Balance on each leg for 1 minute, then Nancy Kerrigan’s for 20 counts In Cadence on each leg

    Great work by the PAX on this one!

    Lots to Pray for

  • No Dips

    2 PAX showed up at the jungle gym at Ecoff Elementary for the weekly Extra Credit session. YHC feels like his Pull-ups have regressed in recent months, so he decided to just do pull-ups this morning. Doolittle was getting in some work of his own before we increased the intensity for Bermuda Triangle.

  • NERD ALERT

    10 grown boys showed up to play in the rain and run around a parking lot at The Alamo this morning.

    WARMARAMA – Moseyed to the other side of the horseshoe. Gave the mission, kept the boys dry during stretches and got into it.

    COP#1 – Eye of the storm. Three stops. (10) reps at each stop and (25) ab exercises at the center.

    • Round 1 – Merkins
    • Round 2 – Squats
    • Round 3 – Burpees

    COP #2 – Redskin Run. IYKYK

    • Indian run ~0.25 miles.
    • Random arm exercises/stretches at the halfway point.
    • (3) rounds of running the length of the parking lot. (24) merkins and (26) squats at each for Champ Bailey and Clinton Portis.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Daddy Daughter Dance
    • Chili Cookoff

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • GO VOTE!
    • F3’s accountability
    • Hermey’s M has a surgery coming up
    • Heist’s M and her job uncertainty

    Thanks for allowing me to lead, Boys!

  • Solo El Twin Teamo

    Feeling like it would be a solo run this morning, YHC took off from the house early enough to arrive at the AO before launch just in case someone showed up. Parking lot was empty so after a loop around it was off to Tarrington, up Ashwell, across Robious and back to the house.

    Decided to run back down Twin Team in honor of Rosie’s Trick or Treat workout. Still what goes down must come back up, and so the lounge-esque act of running down Twin Team was rewarded by running back up Ashwell. And it was wet, very wet.

    -Singer

  • Virgin Turf

    A 10-PAX of high energy HIMs shrugged off the fartsack to embrace a 40 degree DTH beatdown. After seeing the virgin turf of the new baseball fields during the ruck, YHC decided it was high time for breaking in new ground. Here’s a tough one for the history books. 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Circle up in the lot for reps
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Nancy Kerrgans IC
    • DQ’s IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • Imp.Squat Walkers IC
    • Ukrainian Soldiers IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • Tempo Carolina DD’s IC
    • Tempo Werkins IC
    • Tempo Ranger Merkins IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • WWII’s IC
    • Heels to Heaven IC
    • Kimchi Twists OC
    • Oblique LBC’s ea side IC
    • Wilsons Wife

    COP #1:

    • Mosey down to the back baseball field fresh turf for a SEVEN OF DIAMONDS
    • Reps at each base, bear crawl to first, bernie to second, run to 3rd and home
    • x7 Burpees
    • x14 WWII’s
    • Intermission for a Plank Review of the F3 Mission, 5CP’s, an Credo
    • x21 Merkins
    • x28 Humpers
    • x21 Flutters (2-ct)
    • x14 Ball Dippers (2-ct)
    • x7 No Cheat Merkins
    • Variable reps completed at home waiting for the SIX after each round (Skinny Dip does NOT break perfect form just to keep up!)
    • (0740 by the time we finished – amazing how much time this eats up!)

    COP #2:

    • Mosey back up to the lot and line up for INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RUN
    • PAX moves at a run pace (not mosey), while last man drops for a burpee and sprints to the front
    • Progress galf way around parking loop

    COP #3:

    • VARIABLE STUFF MADE UP AS WE WENT
    • Lunge Walk a ways
    • Derkins on new concrete planters
    • Spider crawl down steep grass hill
    • Low crawl back up (just elbows and toes touching the ground)
    • Hoedowns IC on the wall
    • Run BTTF w Karaoke both ways, High Knees, Butt Kickers
    • Circle up at the flag for Hydraulic Planks IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 10
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  What a great way to ring in the month of November! Solid number of Rockwood PAX for a cold morning, and special TClaps to a few guys who haven’t been out for a while but answered the call (Skinny Dip, Roadrash, and Dora). Someone in COT thought he said Skinny Di*k… nope, that would be DIP. Haha. Glad to choose the hard path with such a fine PAX of brothers – grateful for each of you! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 11/3 Launch HUGE BELLS (new KB AO at Forge location)
    • 11/23 Alamo Chili Cookoff
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance